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Adrian Mackenzie is Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University.In today’s digital world, platforms are everywhere, shaping our social and cultural landscapes. This groundbreaking book shows how platforms are not just technical systems, but complex networks involving diverse people, practices and values. It explores a wide range of digital platforms, using insights from science and technology studies, anthropology, sociology and cultural theories to offer fresh perspectives on how platforms, media and devices function and evolve.
Blending ethnographic work with technical analysis, this is essential reading for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of the digital age.
1. Introducing 1000 Platforms
2. Edging: From Terminals to Interfaces
3. Shading: Images and Their Associations
4. Hashing Many Containers
5. Embedding and Embodying
6. Closures and Their Stagings
7. Alignments and Earth
8. Implications
• Unlike much of the existing literature that centres on well-known social media platforms and their controversies, this book looks at a broader array of platforms.
• Combines ethnographic material with technical practices and theories.
• Draws on the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies to offer novel ways of conceptualizing digital platforms.